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[azurelunatic]

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1fP9n9M at March 07, 2014 at 04:30AM
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Awesome protests erupted in my school today. Our student council planned a “fun” game for valentines day. They handed out paper hearts to every girl at the beginning of the day. Only the girls. If a girl speaks to a guy through the duration of the day, she has to give him her heart. Guys get five raffle tickets for every heart they collect. Girls cannot collect hearts, they only have one to give away, and guys do not have to give away anything. A gay male asked for a heart to give away to participate and was told no.

Some girls have taken this as an invitation to say things such as, quoted from twitter, “keeping the whores from talking today haha.” And boasting about “keeping their heart and not being a whore.” This has turned into an excuse to shame each other for talking to guys. And for what? A valentines game?

Rather than writing their names on the hearts and giving them away, many girls have written notes of protest on the paper hearts and are wearing them proudly as they associate with whoever they please and refuse to give the heart away.

Proud of some of the people in my school today.

males are rewarded for collecting female “hearts” and are encouraged to collect as many as they possibly can, but females are only allowed to have one heart to give away, and when they give it away they’re not allowed to play anymore

the correlation of “hearts” to how virginity/sex is treated in society is kind of eerie and definitely sexist

This is a really big deal! My elementary had us do this for Valentine’s Day one year. Girls were given a prize if they kept theirs, boys were given a prize if they got one. The boys would harass us - verbally, getting into our personal space, or pulling our hair - until we told them to stop and then they would get to take the heart. A lot of us were pretty mad about it at the time, and now that I see the implications of it, I’m even angrier.

ALL THIS COMMENTARY AND ALSO SOMEONE GIVE THESE KIDS A MEDAL

Comments

[chagrined]

So bizarre and stupid. What is the point, boys and girls should ...never socialize with each other ever? Be kept in completely separate spheres and never speak to one another because having a conversation equals sex and pregnancy and being an AWFUL FAILURE OF A TEEN? I can't even understand it. Shouldn't students be encouraged to have productive school-related conversations in class? Like working on group projects and stuff? Or helping each other understand things in the work? THIS IS SO DUMB I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT IS REAL

[azurelunatic]

At least for valentine's day. It's enough to make a person want to set things on fire.

[ankaret]

So... the winning condition for girls is to keep their mouths shut all day, any kind of attention a girl gives to a boy counts as 'giving her heart to him', and gay kids aren't allowed to participate at all? Did I just slip and fall into a YA dystopia without noticing?

[azurelunatic]

Yes.

[ankaret]

But I can't find any of my one or more interchangeable love interests. Maybe the cat has eaten them.

(That does explain why I did my hair in a really impressive braid this morning)

[azurelunatic]

At least one of the interchangeable love interests may have been transformed into a cat. Beware strays.

[vass]

I also notice that according to these rules the winning condition for girls is the opposite of the winning condition for boys. There is no way for boys and girls to cooperate: their relationship is inherently adversarial.

But feminists are the ones who hate men.

[azurelunatic]

Not unless they decided to collaborate by both losing, by which I mean setting all the hearts on fire in the middle of the lobby.

[kk1raven]

I kind of like that option. What in the world were the people who came up with this thinking?

[silveradept]

What I am sure has to be there is some sort of "Abstinence Is The Only Way" sign or something. Because otherwise, this shouldn't be anywhere near a school. Ever.

...actually, it shouldn't, anyway, but at least then it would make sense.

[azurelunatic]

I have an idea. You get the t-shirt cannon. I'll find the condoms.

[silveradept]

I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find paper-eating weasels at this hour of the day?